Safety-razor.



PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907.

LR. OURLEY. SAFETY RA APPLICATION FILED 0OT.11. 1905.

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. lNVENTOR zfarraugiifkr eg/ Arromns the razor-blade C,canbe swunginto'an 0 en g pivoted at its ends at Efon thelugsF of a 4 I proximatelythe contourof the easing A and PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES R. CURLEY; OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY- RAZOR.

' No. s4-1,942..i

Application filed October 11,

To 610% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES R; 'CURLEY, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of N ewYork, borou h of Brooklyn; in thecounty of Kings and tate of New York, have invented a new-and ImprovedSafety-R azor', ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription;

The object of thei'nvention-is to provide a new and improvedsafety-razor arranged: to permit of using the razor to produce eitheraright or left hand shearingcut or a straight scra ing cut and to allowconvenient opening or cleaning urposes and insertion and removal of theb ads and a very fine'adjustment of the blade relative to the guard.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinationsofthe same; which will be more fully described hereinafter and thenointed out in the claims.

A practica embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corres onding parts in all theviews.

igure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement; Fig. 2 is a plan viewof the same, part being broken out. Fig. 3 isa sectional side elevationof the same on the line 3 '3 of 2. Fig. 4 is a front elevationIof the imrovement, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the razor-blade.

The casing A of the safety-razor is aproximately U-shaped and isprovided at lts front. edge with an integral guard B, 0 erat ingconjunction with the-cutting e ge of the razor-blade 0, having its backG fitting into ,a recess formed in a blade-holder, D,

carrier F in the-form of a springfollgwingatparranged the same, thecarrier being. secured by rivets or other means to the cas ing Aadjacent to the guard B, as plainly illustrated in Figs. 1, and 3. Bythe arrangement described the blade-holder D, carrying position, asindicated in dotted lines in ig. 3-, to permit convenient insertion orremoval oftherazor-blade O and to allow'thorough cleaning of thesafety-razor after shavin In" order to bring the cutting ed e o therazor-blade- C in proper relation to t e guard B, the blade-holder D,withthe blade C therein, can be bodily adjusted'in a transverse di-Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1907. 1905. semi in. 282.260.

employed, screwing in the back of the casing A and'abuttin againstthefree end of the spring-carrier By screwing up thesetscrews G the freeend of the spring-carrier F is moved forwardly, and conse uently thewith the said free end in a forward direction to bring the cuttingedge'of the blade C in proper relation to the guard B. In a likemannerwhen unscrewing the set-screws G the resiliency of thespring-carrier F causes its free end 'tomove rearwardly, thereby movingthe blade holder D and razor-"blade on al'earward direction in case itis desired farther back relative to the uard B.

When the blade-holder and the razorblade C carried thereby are swunginto an active or closed position, as illustrated inthe drawings, thenthe blade-holder is looked in position for the time being, and "forthispurpose a locking device is provided, preferably in the form ofs'pringcatches D and F secured to or formed on the blade-holderD and thecarrier F, respectively. In s *inging-the blade -holder -D into aclosed. position the spring-catch D moves in engagement with thespring-catch F thus interlocking the catches and thereby securelyholding the bladeholder D in a locked position. (See Fig.3.) .When it isdesired to open the safety-razor, it is only necessary forthe operatorto press on the endsof the blade-holder D or the razorblade Gin anoutward direction to disenga e ,the spring-catch D from the spring-catchl r In order tosecurely and removably hold the razor-blade C intheblade-holder D, the following arrangementrismade:

The back 6 of the razor-blade Qis provided with a dia 'onal slot Cadapted to engage a .pin D, he (1 on the blade-holder D andextendingintothe recess receivingthe back 0 =-The lengthof the back Ccorre ends to the length of the blade-holder D,'an the lugs F areextended forwardly, as plainly illustrated .'in Figs. 1, 3,and 4,.sothat when; the bladeholder D is in a closed position then the ends oftheback C abut against the inner faces of the lugs F to preventlongitudinal ,movement of the razor-blade C during the time the holder Dand the razor-blade C are in a closed position. When, however, theblade-holder open position, as indicatedin dotted lines in rection, andfor this purposeset-screws G are of thelugs F, so that the razor-blade Ccan to set the cutting edge of the razor-blade C D and the razor-blade Oare swung into an.

Fig. 3, then the ends of the back C are clear Iblade=holder D and therazor-bla e'C moved ,backtof the casing in a horizontal direction,

andt 1e heel'H of the said handle H- is proin dotted lines in Fig. 2.

vided with flat surfaces, one of which is engaged at a time by a Hatspring J secured at one end by a rivet or other means J" to the casingA. The flat spring J extends between the lugs A and rests with its freeend on the back'of the casing A. By the arrangement described the handleH can be swung intoa right-angle-position relation tothe casing A orinto an angular or longitudinal position, either to the right or to theleft, as indicated- Vhen the handle H stands in arigl'it-angle positionrelative to the casing A, then the safeftyrazor is used like ordinarysafetyrazorsthat is," to produce a straight scraping cutand when thehandle H- is swung into a longitudinal posi tion relative to the casingA and either to the right or to the Y left then th'e safety razor can,be used to produce a shearing cut on either side of the face razor. n vThe safety-razor shown'and described is of the person usingthesafetyvery-siinple anddurable in construction and -1s'arranged to permitconvenlent insertion Or removal of the razor-blade and allows proper andthorough cle'amngsalter shav ng.

It will also be noticed that the cutting edge of the razor-blade O canbe accurately ad; justed relative to the guard B, so as to insure propershaving without danger of cutting the lace.

Ilaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters P atent I 1. A safety-razor, comprising a casing providedwith a blade-holder, a handle pivoted to thecasing and adapted to bemoved into an angular or longitudinal right or lel t hand positionrelative to the casing, and a spring on the casing, said handle beingprovided with means cooperating with the spring for retaining saidhandle in its adjusted position.

2. A safety-razor comprising a casing having an integral guard, a curvedcarrier secured at one end to the casing adjacent to the said guard, ablade-holder for carrying the blade mounted to swing on the free end ofthe carrier, and means for varying the curve of the carrier wherebytoadjustthe blade with respect to the guard.

' 3." A safety-razor comprising a casing hav- -ing an integral guard, acurved spring-carrier secured at one end to thec'asing adjacent to thesaid guard, a blade-holder for'carrying the blade mounted to swing onthe free end of the carrier,- and set-screws on thecasing engaging thefree end of the carrier for varyingthe curve of the same whereby toadjust the blade relative to the guard.

4.- A safety-razor comprising a casing for supporting the 'razor blade,a handle fulcrumed on the said casing and having a plurality ofbearing-faces at its heel, and a spring on the said casing adapted toengage the said heel-bearingfaces of the said hand e.

In testimony whereof I have-signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

V 7 JAMES R. CUhLEY. Witnesses: v

THEO. GQHOsTER,

JNO. M. BITTER.

